ANTH 3340 - Environmental Anthropology

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University of Central Arkansas

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Description:

An elective in the anthropology minor core. Environmental anthropology provides an introduction to human / environmental interations from diverse anthropological perpectives, covering cultural ecology, ecological anthropology, ethnoscience, and political ecology. This course explores human adaptability, integrating social and biological approaches, cultural and political ecology, ecological politics and resistance in struggles over the definition, organization, and control of the natural environment, and contemporary issues sof global environmental change, population and environment, "common property" resources, indigenous peoples' environmental sciences and management regimes of resources, and the power relations affecting local and global human use of the environment. Lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ANTH 1302. Spring.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uca.edu

Phone Number:

(501) 450-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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